Nila Zelinska holds a doll belonging to her granddaughter, she was able to find in her destroyed house in Potashnya, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. War has been a catastrophe for Ukraine and a crisis for the globe. One year on, thousands of civilians are dead, and countless buildings have been destroyed.
“The United States has made it very clear that if China steps into the conflict and supports Russia militarily, then of course the United States is going to get very upset,” he added. “Putin and have a few things in common, they both use similar narratives about restoring lost imperial glory and about being victimised by the West,” he added.
“The more it has to support Ukraine in terms of weapons and the limited attention of its leadership, the harder it will be for the US also, to really focus on what it needs to do, to balance China in this part of the world.” Retired lieutenant general Michel Yakovleff, former vice chief of staff to North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, believes that with the latest renewed offensive, Moscow is trying to put together “a major effort for symbolic victory that would turn the tables”.